One-time world-class 800-meter runner competes with younger masters in Eugene, OR.
Alisa Harvey of Manassas was back in her element Saturday, racing at the track and field Olympic Trials for the fifth time since 1988. But her 400-meter dash on a wet track in Eugene, OR, was a masters exhibition—with no London Games berth at stake. At 46, Harvey wasn’t at her best. Her time at historic Hayward Field was 61.74 seconds—slower than a 60.5 she recorded June 3 at a Potomac Valley all-comers meet in Falls Church. “Hormonally, it wasn’t a good day for me,” Harvey said after taking seventh in a race won by world masters champion Lisa Daley, 42, of White Plains, NY. “Everything else was perfect.” Harvey was a star at Tennesee in the 1980s and went on to a long career as a middle-distance runner and road runner. Now a coach at …
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The Campbell brothers have been swimming since they were kids and have worked with some of the top coaches in the region.
Two local swimmers have found their way to a much larger pool: the Olympic team trials. Conor Campbell, 20, and his younger brother, Henry, 15, will leave for Omaha, Neb., in about week. They are heading to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. The duo has grown up in Manassas and started swimming with the local Sudley Club when they were just kids. Their mom was also a swimmer. Conor graduated in 2010 from Osbourn High School, where Henry is currently a rising junior. The boys said they were good at swimming "so we just stuck with it." They are now part of the Manassas-based U.S. Swimming team Quantico Devil Dolphins (QDD)—a team once coached by Jeremy Linn, who set a national record in the 100-meter breaststroke, while also winning the …
Erin Gibson
11:48 am on Friday, June 15, 2012
Please not this article has been updated to accurately reflect the correct name of U.S. National Team member Rick Benner. more ›